Pregnancy And Conception: Woman Trying To Conceive For 20 Years, Gave Birth 4 Weeks After Learning She's Pregnant

A Louisiana woman who was trying to conceive for 20 years received the shock of her life when she learned she was already pregnant and gave birth four weeks thereafter. She and her husband have already given up on the idea of a possible pregnancy after her doctors told her conception is something she couldn't do.

A Pleasant Surprise

Parenting reported that Udona and her husband, Herbert, have been married since 1995. Although they wanted to have a child, they have already given up hope after trying for 20 years, aggravated by some doctor's bad news of Udona's inability to conceive. So when the couple learned that Udona was 33-weeks pregnant at 40-years-old, it was a pleasant surprise yet kind of shocking altogether.

Udona never imagined that she would still get pregnant after 20 long years. Reports have it that she felt some fluttering in her abdominal area during Thanksgiving last year, which she didn't know were already pregnancy symptoms. She didn't mind them at first, but the flutters eventually turned into pain, which made her worry about the possibility of suffering from cancer.

Udona didn't want her husband to "fuss" over her. She said, "I prayed every night, in silent prayer, that I would get better." Udona prayed that she would get better from an ailment, but she soon found out that the perceived illness was good news after all.

Pregnancy A Prank?

A friend suggested that she take a pregnancy test, and when it turned positive and told Herbert about it, he even initially thought that she was trying to pull his leg. He and Udona were simply thankful that their baby was okay and that the blood pressure medications she had been taking did not cause pregnancy and conception complications.

Udona's case isn't the first case of a woman who didn't know she was pregnant. Metro reported the case of Charlotte Bryant who gave birth on the toilet because her doctors told her she was constipated.

There are other cases of women who have been trying to conceive for years and who got pregnant just when they least expected it. Udona's and Charlotte's stories have inspired many women who wanted to have a child yet were facing pregnancy and conception complications that prohibit them from having a baby.